Houston Chronicle by Sergio Chapa Jan. 14, 2020
Environmentalists are accusing the Trump administration of committing another act of “climate censorship†after a U.S. Forest Service administrator allegedly directed agency employees to remove references to climate change and greenhouse gas emissions from plans to open national forests and grasslands in Texas to new rounds of oil and natural gas drilling.
The agency denies the allegations but is seeking to overturn an Obama-era moratorium on new drilling on federal property. The Trump administration proposes to lease large areas of Sam Houston National Forest, Davy Crockett National Forest, Angelina National Forest, Sabine National Forest, Caddo National Grasslands and LBJ National Grasslands to oil and natural gas companies.
Environmentalists contend that a draft notice of the plans mentioning climate change and greenhouse gases was posted by the U.S. Forest Service to a federal website on Aug. 26 but was replaced the next day with a version without that language.
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